The Green Line Metro train at Branch Avenue Station. (Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons by user SchuminWeb, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.)

The Green Line Metro faced 20 years of disputes and problems before trains finally started running in 1991. (Photo Source: Wikimedia Commons by user SchuminWeb, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license.)

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Metro: It's Not Easy Being Green

Washington DC
 by
Emily Robinson

December 28, 1991 marked an important milestone for the Metro and for Washington: the long-awaited Green Line finally opened for business. On that Saturday, complete with official speeches, balloons and plenty of pomp and circumstance, the Anacostia, Navy Yard and Waterfront stations opened their fare gates for the first time. Getting to this celebration was anything but easy, however. For many years, it had seemed that the Green Line would never become a reality, as the last color of the Metrorail project faced countless setbacks due to budgeting, route disputes, and construction methods.

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